18-12-2018 01:00 via kvoa.com

The ‘Christmas comet’ is back for another visit. Here’s how to see it.

Just in time for the holiday season, a comet first observed more than 70 years ago has returned for one of its periodic visits — and this flyby of the “Christmas comet” is one of the closest in recent history.
“By my count, there have been only about 10 other known comets that approached this close over the last century,” Paul Chodas, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told NBC News MACH in an email, adding that
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